{"id":7791,"date":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/bentley-mulliner-bacalar-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T09:32:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T09:32:20","slug":"bentley-mulliner-bacalar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/bentley-mulliner-bacalar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley Mulliner Bacalar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the 1920s and 1930s it was part of the normal day-to-day business of luxury car manufacturers to meet special customer requests. These could concern small details in the interior as well as completely independent bodyworks. The latter were often built by external coachbuilders. This beautiful tradition was only shortlived after World War 2 due to the newly emerging self-supporting bodies. In the end it even fell into oblivion. Bentley now wants to revive this tradition. For this purpose their subsidiary Mulliner, the oldest coachbuilder in the world, which has been part of the brand for many decades, offers a new Bespoke programme. This is divided into three branches: ‘Classic’, ‘Collections’ and ‘Coachbuilt’ for special customers, whose first product has now been introduced. Actually, the large exhibition stage of the Geneva International Motor Show (GIMS) was chosen for this purpose, but as is well known, it had to be cancelled due to a ban by the Swiss government for events with more than 1,000 visitors. So the premiere took place without journalists at the company headquarters in Crewe.

The first vehicle of the ‘Coachbuilt’ division is called Bacalar and will be the rarest two-door Bentley of modern times. The name comes from the lake Laguna Bacalar on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Bentley is thus continuing the trend that began with the Bentayga towards naming cars based on natural landmarks. Mulliner can look back on a history that goes back to the 1500s. Even then, the company was known for its particularly luxurious carriages. So in the Bacalar more than 500 years of experience meet the most modern technology. Each of the 12 planned vehicles is handmade by Mulliner in close cooperation with the respective customer in order to realize his or her wishes as exactly as possible. The roofless barchetta design is the only fixed point that unites all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n

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